Acknowledgements
Preface: Communities, collaborations and chaos
The process of the book
Introduction: Ecofeminism and the seeds of time
Ecofeminism past and present
Ecofeminism in/and early modern studies
1 Ecofeminism matters
Domesticated beings
Knowing things
A substance of subject-objects
Historical practice and present crisis
2 Of mouseholes and housefires: Transcorporeal domesticity
‘Noysome and pestilent things’
Pest control: The scratching cat and ‘the smallest monstrous mouse’
(Beyond) pest control: Fleas, flies and other creeping creatures
Between small and great, soft and fierce: The hearth
After the fire
3 How we know any thing
Nothing is everything
Unknowability
‘Howeer you come to know it’
The power of and in uncertainty
4 The dynamic object
The indifference of stone
Dynamism in the garden
(Boys as) women as plants
Petrarch in the produce aisle
Conclusion: Nature, stir: Ecofeminists in the archive
Healing nature
Living nature
Appendix: Excavating nature
Notes
Bibliography
Index